Caretech
Location
Stockton on Tees, County Durham | United Kingdom
Job description
Senior Residential Childcare Worker
Manual Driving License is Essential
*£500 Welcome Bonus *£1000 Recommend A Friend Bonus!
About us
Spark of Genius is one of Scotland’s largest residential child care providers. For over 25 years, we have been delivering high quality care to young people who need to be looked after. Spark of Genius is also part of the UK-wide CareTech family who are committed to providing each child with opportunities to have their individual needs met.
About the Service
Our service is a substantial and comfortable home offering five generous bedrooms and a variety of communal areas of high standard for young people aged 10-18, offering a therapeutic and peaceful environment for the young people to learn, grow and develop.
In your new role
This is an opportunity to be part of a dedicated and trauma-informed team, and to work directly with young people with a range of complex needs connected to their individual life experiences and childhood adversity.
This is also a chance to make a difference to outcomes for young people! Our mission is to make Every Second Count, to help us succeed you will:
Work in a positive, respectful and empowering way with all young people in order to promote good relationships and encourage achievements.
Work as part of a team to meet the social, emotional and educational health and mental health needs of young people
Participate in and encourage the participation of the young people in the domestic tasks of the home in order to develop the self-care skills.
Write review reports, risk assessment and contribute to care plans.
liaise with parents and partners agencies to ensure that the best interests of the young people are respected and promoted at all times.
Senior Residential Support Worker Essential:
· Committed to providing an inclusive, inspiring, living environment
· Worked in a residential childcare setting (min 1 Year)
· Health and Social Care Qualification or equivalent
· An understanding of working with complex needs
· Experience of Residential Care and/or Social Work
· A passion for working with young people
· Able to work in a Challenging Environment
· Provide Flexibility to ensure consistency for the Children and Young People
Desirable
· Ability to promote a positive ‘Lead by Example’ attitude
· Ability to gain relevant qualifications within 5 years as set by the SSSC
Company Values:
We aim to function as one coherent residential childcare system with consistent policies, practices, procedures and management across all of our homes. As part of this system, we will deliver care to the standards set out in the National Care Standards. Spark of Genius work tirelessly to provide a safe, nurturing yet stimulating environment in which young people that have experienced emotional pain, social and academic failure and rejection, can stabilise their behaviour.
Benefits:
· Full Time – Bank Contracts
· Up to 30 days holiday per year
· Additional payments for overtime, sleepovers etc
· Full Paid Induction Program
· Ongoing Training and Development
· Dedicated learning and development programme
· Support to gain SVQ qualification
· EAP – Employee Assistance Program
· Pension Scheme
· *Refer a friend ‘Scheme’ reward system
· *£500 welcome bonus
· Employee recognition schemes
· Annual Employee Awards Evening
· Free PVG Check
· Access to company vehicles (whilst at work)
Due to the nature of the role, it will be necessary for all Residential Childcare Workers to be subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check by Disclosure Scotland and achieve membership of the scheme prior to commencing work with us.
All candidates must be successfully registered with the SSSC within 6 months of employment.
If you haven’t heard back within 14 days, please consider your application unsuitable on this occasion.
Data received in applications will only be used for recruitment purposes within the CareTech Group.
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£30.3k per annum
